Arizona weekly citizen., 1887-03-05
RATHER CHEEKY

Notwithstanding the intimate relR-
 tons which should exist betwean Pima
 county and our own, every man in the house from her county cast their yotes
 against the very life and eyista,ce Inf
 Oochise county. Our long and pIeasant
 nelghoorly intercourse with the mother county has led us 10 expect a helping
 nand would be stretched across the
 borders or Pima county in the spirit of true friendship and smity. We are sur-
 prised at the attitude assumed by the
 representatives of Pima, This county has never done anything to deserve such treatment at their hands. We ara con hdent that should there be an issue raised whereby the prosperity and ad- Vancement of Pima county wouId be endangered the representatives of c. chlse county would array themselyes on inc side of justice and fair play. The ciamor of disgruntled politicians and tricky !obbers should not be iustrumep- tal ID compelling our neighbors of Tue. son to put forth their best effort m the direction of dividing our county. The Epitaph has no fears of the result. We are firm ID the belief that should such a measure succeed Tn passing the Couu- ell that Governor Zulick will send it to the happy hunting grounds by the wGy Of good substantial veto.
 The above plsint is from the Tomb stone Epitspb, our neighborly journal that has faithfully labored to scuttle Pima county by encouraging every dem ocratic plot against its interests. It pro fesses a kindly feeling for our county simply to get sn opportunity to plant its knuckles squ8rely between its eyes. It wants the cooperation of our represe1- tatives for its own measures, but has no intention to recipiocate. What manner of speople does the Epitsph suppose the PImas to be. that they should be it's tool and lackey? The Epitaph's pet democrat WAS the instrument selected by partisan schemsTs to cripple Pima county by sbolishing the County Court simply for the purpose of providing places for hungry denocrets; be also made bold effort to take away our Territorial University, and in many other ways have the Cochise represent, atives exhibited 6 bitter hostility to- wards Pima county. ltis true that the good book says we should love our enc mics, but that precept wss evidently 1 omitted from the rules adopted for the government of the messly Fourteenth, | and when the limit of their ability to l iDjure Pima county is reached, they aP- l peal to our magnsnimIty to save them | selves from deserved csstigation. We | have no patience with such hypocrisy l and perf.y, The Epitaph ous sht csr- tsinly to know that eve-y effort of the Legislature to carve up existing coun- ties is labor lost, under tbe restrictions of the HRrrsoR act. It part of the special legislation that is directly pro hibited, and nothing but e general law can be legally enacted by which new countes can be created. Even in the | face of this law, one of the E2itaph's pet statesmen has fGthered bill to dis member Pima county, and this action shows the sincerity Of the Epitsph's professions of regard for our interests. The representatives from Pima county scted Tn good faith with Cochise until they realized they had been betrayed, and if they attempt G little retaliation they are certainly justified through the course the Cochise representatives have taken.